Closure for trousers



March 7, 1950 J. MlNTZ CLOSURE FOR TROUSERS Filed Sept. 11, 1947 IZmventor:

' .J ULBUS MINTZ (Ittorneg Patented Mar. 7, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE CLOSURE FOR TROUSERS Julius Mintz, New York, N. Y. ApplicationSeptember 11, 1947', Serial N0.'773 ,402 1 Claim. (01. 2-235) Myinvention relates to closures for trousers or the like garments and.more particularly to closures for the waistbands of-trousers or thelike.

Objects of my inventionrare to provide an easy. quick and reliable:connection on the trousers slot or of the ends of at waist band, toprovide an easy and quick disconnection, and to provide a neatappearance of the trousers.

Other objects are to obtain these results with simple and inexpensivemeans, to provide one end of a waist band or one overlapping part with ahook adapted to engage a button afiixed to the other end or the otheroverlapping part, and thereby to make possible the use of a button asone element of a hook connection and without providing a button hole inthe cloth.

Further objects are to provide a hook simply made of a wire, to providethe hook with arms insertable in a pocket formed by the cloth of thewaist band or of the trousers, to secure the hook to the trousers bysimply closing this pocket, to close this pocket, and thereby to afiixthe hook, by a simple row of stitches which can be made by a sewingmachine, and to eliminate all hand-sewing from the operations necessaryfor the application of the hook.

Still other objects and advantages will appear from the followingdescription of an exemplifying embodiment of my invention, from theappended claim and from the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of a hook according to my invention andof a broken 01f end of a waist band, in unassembled condition.

Fig. 2 shows a view of the same waist band end, of the same hook securedthereto, and of the corresponding other end of the waist band, all theseparts being seen from the inner side of the trousers, the two waist bandends which will overlap in connected condition being represented inseparated condition.

Fig. 3 shows a bottom view of the parts shown in Fig. 2.

All figures are represented on an enlarged scale.

Referring to the drawing, numeral I indicates a hook made of a single,bent wire. The hook I comprises a U-shaped loop 2 which is open at theleft side and two arms 3 which are considerably more spaced from eachother than the legs of the loop 2. The arms 3 are positioned in a planedifferent from the plane of the loop 2 and about parallel to the latterplane. Each leg of the loop 2 is connected to one arm 3 by a wireportion 4 substantially extending verti- 2 cally in the sameplaneastheloop 2,. by a wire portion Storming a continuationof-v the portion 4and-running from theplaneof the. loop -2 to theplane of the arms .3, andby a wire portion 6. extending vertically in the plane of the arms 3,forming a continuationof the portion 5 and being continued by an arm 3.

The wire portions 5 may converge slightly toward the plane of the loop2. The arms 3 extend preferably along two parallel sides of a rectangleand terminate in inwardly bent loops 1. The area of this rectangle isconsiderably broader than the loop 2.

The hook I is secured to one of the two over lapping ends of a waistband. Preferably, this end 8 is the outer of the two overlapping waistband ends. This end forms a pocket which may be made in the followingmanner:

The end 8 is doubled by folding an extreme portion 9 inwardly along aline I I, the upper rims I2 and I3 of the doubled end are connected by arow of stitches I4, and the corresponding lower rims are connected by asimilar row of stitches I5 whereby the end 8 forms a pocket which isopen at the left side. Before these stitches are made, the upper andlower rims may be folded inwardly whereby the stitches will pass throughdoubled rims, and the upper and lower edges will show a neat appearance.The original strip of cloth of which the pocket is made may comprise twolayers I6 and I! connected by a folding line or edge I8 whereby thelayers I6 and I! are parts of an originally single strip of cloth, andeach pocket wall comprises two layers.

The arms 3 of the hook I together with the hook portions 6 are insertedin this pocket by shifting the hook in the direction of the arrow I9 inFig. 1. In this shifted position, the loop 2 is positioned outside ofthe pocket at a small distance from the inner side of the end 8, and thehook portions 5 are pressed into the edge I8, this edge giving way toform small recesses 2 for the passage of the portions 5.

Then, the pocket is closed by a vertical row of stitches 22 sewn throughthe edge l8 and the adjacent other wall of the pocket. Thereby, the hookI is permanently secured to the end 8.

The other end 23 of the waist band is provided with a button 24 which isconnected to the cloth constituting the waist band by a neck 25 whichmay be formed in well known manner of sewing threads. In order to closethe trousers or the waist band, the end 23 is moved to the left side asfar as necessary for introduction of the neck 25 in the loop 2. Whilethe neck enters 3 the loop, the button 24 enters the narrow spacebetween the loop 2 and the end 8.

In order to open the waist band, the button 24 or the end 23 are movedfrom the closing position to the left side until the button 24 is freefrom engagement with the hook I.

I desire it understood that my invention is not confined to theparticular embodiment shown and described, the same being merelyillustrative, and that my invention may be carried out in other wayswithout departing from the spirit of my invention as it is obvious thatthe particular embodiment shown and described is only one of the manythat may be employed to attain the objects of my invention.

Having described the nature of my invention, what I claim and desire toprotect by Letters Patent is:

A closure for trousers or the like, comprising a waist band having adoubled end terminating in a folding line, and having another endoverlapping said first end in closed position, a hook having a U-shapedloop with two legs positioned, in closed position, between saidwaist-band ends, said hook further having two arms positioned in saiddoubled end, and having connections between said legs and said arms,said arms being spaced apart more than said legs and being positioned ina plane different from the plane of said legs, said arms and legsextending from said connections toward said folding line, said loopopening in the direction from said folding line, and a button positionedat that side of said other waist band end which faces said first end,said button having a neck made of threads, connecting said button withsaid other waist band end and fitting the inner space of said loop, saidbutton being broader than the space between said legs and being narrowerthan the space between said arms.

JULIUS MINTZ.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 569,607 Botto Oct. 20, 1896620,993 Ten Hope Mar. 14, 1899 25 2,194,100 Shikler Mar. 19, 19402,205,771 Versoy June 25, 1940

